¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Balefires
1. balefire [n] - See also: balefire
Lexicographical Neighbors of Balefires
Literary usage of Balefires
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mythology of All Races by John Arnott MacCulloch, Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, Alice Werner (1916)
"The great summer solstice festival of the Celts, with its balefires, is of a kind
with that of the ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"... and they laid amid it the mighty chieftain, heroes mourning their master dear.
Then on the hill that hugest of balefires the warriors wakened. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1835)
"... long closed in vain—his genius bringing back from oblivion ages of his country's
history all pictured as vividly as when the balefires blazed ou Tweed, ..."
Other Resources:
